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Feb 15, 2011

. the last word with lawrence o'donnell starts now. >>> the day after president obama released his budget, he held a press conference to defend it, and issued his first veto threat to the republican house. >> what weighs ten pounds and pleases nobody. >> not good to get a head line on the first day. >> president obama is back to a campaign message on budget cutting. >> we have to be careful. again, let's use a scalpel, not a machete. >> called a budget cut, not a budget massage. >> he is playing a delicate game. >> the government's credit card is on fire. >> where the president cuts with a scalpel republicans are cranking up the chain saw. >> house republicans prepare to offer their deep spending cuts. >> president obama effectively punting it. >> republicans will not punt. everything is on the table. >> the republicans accuse the president of punting and then to punt back. >> the gop is saying that the president punted on this. >> republicans have punted for the past year on all these issues. >> it is going to get boring. >> why are republicans already saying they won't compromise, the tea p

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Feb 1, 2011

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Feb 1, 2011

of them. >>> president obama meanwhile is meeting with his top national security advisers. we're going to have much more on what the white house is doing. what's been the white house role in all these dramatic developments in egypt? the obama administration putting pressure on the egyptian president to step down. stay with us for that. also, egypt's control of a vital oil shipping lane. if the crisis continues, we could all feel the impact. you know, when i grow up, i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i'm going to work with kids. i want to fix up old houses. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. i want to fall in love again. [ female announcer ] together we can discover the best of what's next at aarp.org. >>> jack cafferty certainly following the break news, all the developments here in the united states as well as in egypt. jack is here with "the cafferty file." jack? >> some estimates put the estimates of egyp

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Feb 2, 2011

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Feb 2, 2011

the obama administration predicted. i think it's a time for straight talk diplomatically and i'm sure it is is happening between the obama administration is the mubarak government. >> i was talking to a senior administration official who said that mubarak may have sent these people out to show to the people of egypt and the world that he is needed during this next eight months for this transition, that he is not going to leave right away as the u.s. has been privately telling him that he has to do, that he is needed to preserve law and order. and that is not the military doing this, these are these people, mubarak supporters who have been seen in previous elections. they are known commonly as thugs. is that a credible scenario? >> you know, it's hard to believe that the attacks by these pro mubarak forces against these peaceful demonstrators were not ashifted by the government. it seems to me reasonable to assume that there was some government comris complicit in these attacks. for large days they were peaceful in tahrir square and they were kids. there were older people. there were s

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Feb 17, 2011

MSNBC
The Last Word

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Feb 17, 2011

to his combative approach to new jersey's democratic dominated legislature. he mocked his obama-backed predecessor john core sooin who said he would sleep on a cot in his office until the new jersey cries i was averted. >> i said you want to pass income tax increase, that's fine. i am going to veto it. and if you want to close down the government because of that, that's fine. but i want to tell you something. i am not moving any cot into the office to sleep in here. take a look at me. you think i'm sleeping on a cot? we submitted a budget that cut real spending 9% year over year. every department of state government was cut. and we balanced the budget without any new or increased taxes. >> then he attacked president obama for pushing investments in his state of the union speech. >> the big things are high speed rail. the big things are high speed internet access. a million electric cars on the road by some date. ladies and gentlemen, that is the candy of american politics. those are not the big things, because let me guarantee you something. if we don't fix the real big things,

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The Daily Rundown

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Feb 14, 2011

secretary and how the point of jay carney change president obama's messaging robert gibbs is probably sleeping in about now. happy valentine's day, chuck. >> i have my red tie on. i saw the budget going from the new executive office building on my way in. you can see it wrapped in the palettes of that crazy stuff. also governor hayley barber is running for president. wait until you see this interview. reports that popular energy drinks may pose serious health risks to young adults didn't see that coming. we will get to the president's budget just released. it's a plan for the nation to live within its means while investing in the future with targeted spending. >> it's the beginning of a battle of $3.7 trillion and reducing the deficit by 1.1 trillion over 10 years. 2/3 is from spending cuts and 1/3 from tax increases. obama's budget slashes $100 billion from summer school grants to the college pell grant system in order to continue funding other parts of the pell program. $78 billion in defense cuts and decreases in low income heating assistance by 50% and caps on itemized deductions

MSNBC - Hardball With Chris Matthews

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Hardball With Chris Matthews

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Feb 15, 2011

tonight, 51% of republican primary voters believe affirmatively that president obama was not born in america. what this means is that in order to be nominated for the republican nomination a republican has to pretend or actually deny that president obama is a legitimate president he would be running against. the lie that won't die is our top story tonight. and speaking of those republican candidates, where are they? why hasn't a serious candidate even declared yet? could it be as joe scarborough suggested obama will be very hard to beat next year? "morning joe" himself joins us tonight. plus, the phony case for war against iraq. there was no weapons of mass destruction. no wonder donald rumsfeld doesn't repeat the lie in his new book. the budget. i get the politics but why is president willing to cut programs he knows work. finally, we've been looking for a republican that would say limbaugh doesn't represent the republican party looks like someone has just volunteered for that job and boy did rush hit him back. let's begin with the lie that won't die our president is not one of

CNN - CNN Newsroom

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Feb 18, 2011

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Feb 18, 2011

are criticizing michelle obama for creating what they say is a nanny state. carol costello joins us from washington. carol what is the concern here? what is the complaint? >> well, the concern is with the allegations that michelle obama wants to create a nanny state. it started with michelle obama's little garden at the white house. she invited children to plant vegetables to encourage kids to eat healthy, the start of her childhood anti-obesity campaign, which many people said was a no downside issue. wrong. turns out some conservatives say that planted the seeds of her real goal, to create a nanny state, an allegation that gained steam when she championed breast feeding because some people say breast feeding leads to slimmer adults, and that came around the time that the irs said breast pumps could be a tax deduction. michelle bachman says to think that the government has to buy my breast pump for my babies, i think you just got the definition of the nanny state, and yesterday sarah palin jumped on that band wagon again. >> it's no wonder that michelle obama is saying, you better breas

CNN - Your Money

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CNN
Your Money

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Feb 12, 2011

. >> the recovery continues, be wru wr are the jobs? ali velshi is off this week. if president obama is going to keep, he needs to figure out a way to get americans back to work. >> our measure of success has to be weather every american who wants a job can find a job. whether this country is still the place where you can make it if you try. michael steele is the former chairman of the republican national committee. michael, we saw republicans work with the administration to get tax cuts extended, and it resulted in positive momentum for president obama. what is the political incentive for republicans to unite with him on job creation ahead of the november 2012 election? >> well, i think the incentive is it gives the republicans an opportunity to speak with clarity on their views on how jobs are created where we invest in the private sector, not in government institutions. that putting in place the very strategies, whether tax cuts or reduction in spending on various areas of the economy, that will allow that to invest and grow, those conversations are important to have now. that argument has

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Feb 17, 2011

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Feb 17, 2011

at the wisconsin state capital. as you said, the drama has made it all the way to the without. president obama criticized the budget bill, saying that it seemed like it was, quote, short-sighted thinking on the part of the governor. listen here to president obama. >> i would say, as a general proposition, that everybody's got to make some adjustments to new fiscal realities. we had to impose, for example, a freeze on pay increases for federal workers for the next two years as part of my overall budget freeze. on the other hand, some of what i have heard coming out of wisconsin, where you're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally seems like more of an assault on unions. >> reporter: the president through press secretary jay carney, he reiterated his boss's point, saying the president doesn't think this is the right way to fix a shorefall, but on the other end, john boehner is criticizing the president and defending scott walker. in a statement he released, he said, in part, quote, rather than shouten down those in office who speak honestly about the challen

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Feb 14, 2011

to the budget laid out by president obama. first impressions from the gop house members are that the budget cuts don't go deep enough. >>> that does it for us. happy valentine's day. we'll see you back here tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern. now over to suzanne malveaux. >>> i'm suzanne malveaux. we want to get you caught up on valentine's day. happy valentine's day to you, february 14th. >>> president obama sent congress his budget plan for 2012 and it calls for spending $3.7 trillion. the white house says the blueprint, this draft, will cut the deficit more than $1 trillion over the next decade. >> when i was sworn in as president, i pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term. the budget i'm proposing today meets that pledge and puts us on a path to pay for what we spend by the middle of the decade. we do this in part by eliminating waste and cutting whatever spending we can do without. as i start, i've called for a freeze on annual domestic spending over the next five years. >> republicans immediately complain that the president is spending too much and cutting too little. bud

MSNBC - Hardball With Chris Matthews

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Feb 2, 2011

MSNBC
Hardball With Chris Matthews

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Feb 2, 2011

's getting late in the season. could it be that president obama is seen as getting stronger? they're not fighting as fast as they used to with getting these nominations. >>> glenn beck, we start with the crisis in egypt. joining me is chief foreign affairs correspondent richard engel. yesterday president mubarak said i'm going to use the police if this keeps up. what is he actually doing on his behalf against the protesters right now? >> reporter: there is an ongoing battle behind me in tahrir. it has been going back and forth with each side. and there are two sides gaining the upper hand. the protesters appear to be somewhat in the advantage. how we got to this, this morning there were thousands of protesters here, gathered peacefully. today wasn't supposed to be a big day of demonstrations, many of the protesters were angry after president mubarak did not leave the country yesterday, and they were planning a big march on friday. the surprise was when thousands, which later became at least 10,000 to 15,000 pro-mubarak supporters arrived on horseback, with weapons, and made a surp

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Feb 15, 2011

. >>> happening now, president barack obama says he's eager to have an adult conversation about overspending. we're deciphering the main messages of his surprise news conference. >>> plus, death chants by iranian lawmakers. they are trying to snuff out anti-government protests by calling for the execution of some opposition leaders. >>> and after months of scandal, italy's prime minister now facing trial on sex and abuse of power charges. we have an exclusive interview with a woman who is being investigated for hooking him up with young women. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jessica yellin. you're in "the situation room." >>> president obama faced reporters today after enduring 24 hours of mostly bad reviews about his new budget blueprint. he used a hastily called news conference to defend his spending plan as well as his response to the revolution in egypt, and he laid down some new markers for his next two years in office. our senior white house correspondent ed henry was there. ed, the president seemed pretty defensive today. >> reporter: he was a little defensive in dealing with the situation

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MSNBC Live

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Feb 16, 2011

dominated legislature. he mocked his obama-backed predecessor john core sooin who said he would sleep on a cot in his office until the new jersey cries i was averted. >> i said you want to pass income tax increase, that's fine. i am going to veto it. and if you want to close down the government because of that, that's fine. but i want to tell you something. i am not moving any cot into the office to sleep in here. take a look at me. you think i'm sleeping on a cot? we submitted a budget that cut real spending 9% year over year. every department of state government was cut. and we balanced the budget without any new or increased taxes. >> then he attacked president obama for pushing investments in his state of the union speech. >> the big things are high speed rail. the big things are high speed internet access. a million electric cars on the road by some date. ladies and gentlemen, that is the candy of american politics. those are not the big things, because let me guarantee you something. if we don't fix the real big things, there will be no electric cars on the road. >> he then addr

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Feb 12, 2011

without permission. meanwhile, president obama is deploying his senior political advisers to meet with key allies. the jubilant celebrations erupt in egypt and around the world after the 18-daypro tests finally toppled hosni mubarak. can i er, the question would be do we know where mubarak is now and do we know anything about his plans? >> well, good morning, alex. what we're told by local officials is that hosni mubarak is in the red sea resort of sham el sheikh. now, whether he stays there or moves again is one question. before he steps down as president yesterday, you will remember he had explicitly vowed to stay in egypt. the military are in charge, at least for now, and today the scream council of the armed forces banned current and ex government officials from traveling without permission. so that suggests that mubarak's movements may not be entirely his own will. indeed, there are some reports that his assets have been frozen because he and his family are report to be worth some $40 billion. so, you know, some confusion, but what we can say for sure from the pictures is that while m

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Feb 15, 2011

you, everybody. >> well, that was, of course, president obama giving a press conference on the budget with some of the conversation about what's happening in the middle east. i'm joined right now by savannah guthrie, nbc news white house correspondent. also, david corn of david jones, and of course, andrea mitchell of the "andrea mitchell reports" which is coming up at 1:00. she's, of course, nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent. let's all go, first of all, savannah, if this were high school or even middle school, i think the president was saying, darers go first. you want entitlements, either i cut them or you cut them. >> he's saying, meet me at the table. i think when you the take a step back and look at what they were trying to accomplish here, the message seemed to be, patience, everybody. this is a two-step process. this budget gets the current spending under control. we'll attack the larger issues, the elephant in the room, as we talked about, the entitlements at some later time. but everything he did seemed to be geared toward this audience of independence, harkening back

MSNBC - The Last Word

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The Last Word

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Feb 14, 2011

'donnell starts now. we'll see you tomorrow night. >>> president obama's budget is dead on arrival. >> i pledged to cut the deficit in half. >> we're ready to take this debate on. >> president obama's budget plan puts him between worried democrats and uncompromising republicans. >> it's hot off the presses and already getting a cool reception from democrats and republicans. >> a huge disappointment to those in both parties. >> democrats see fotoo many cut that hurt children and the poor. >> more than a trillion dollars in cuts. >> if a republican president had proposed on the left we'd go absolutely crazy. >> grants. 14 million children who are growing up in poverty could soon disappear. >> taking heating subsidies away from poor people. >> republicans say obama doesn't cut enough. >> we're broke. >> we have to cut even from programs that are good. >> there is very little we see in this so far that commonality on spending. >> the white house defends the cuts and calls new spending investments. >> we think it is a responsible plan. >> cut excessive spending wherever we find it. >> he talked about

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Feb 8, 2011

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Feb 8, 2011

talk to in the square feel like the obama administration has really let them down. there was a guy holding a sign today that i saw that said, yes, we can. and back to the obama campaign. and people feel that the administration has given hosni mubarak, a green light to stay in power. and that again, that's the bottom-line demand of the protesters out there. it's a very clear, obvious thing. don't want to hear about these discussions. they don't want to hear about the plans for a gradual transition. they want to see mubarak go. that's clearly not happening. that's a source of huge frustration, dare i say anger that the protesters have about the united states. clearly, the other thing is that this is really not about the united states. so much of this is about what's going on in this country. while people are mindful of what the u.s. is doing, it's not a big, big issue in the square. in the square, it's about the people and their government. and that's what this revolution is, they call it is about more so than anything else. andrea? >> ron, just do recapitulate, what robert gibbs has

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Feb 5, 2011

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Feb 5, 2011

in the air. >> okay. richard, many thanks as always. >>> the obama administration may be shifting tactics. speaking from the white house yesterday, president obama suggested that mubarak should consider how history will remember him. >> the key question he should be asking himself is how do i leave a legacy behind where egypti is able to get through this period. my hope is he will end up making the right decision. >> good morning to you, mike. >> good morning. >> president obama described egypt's president as proud, referred to him as a pariot. >> the administration from the president on down has been eager to knock down the perception that they are calling the shots in egypt. it's obviously true the united states is not driving this train. they are sitting and watching events unfold like we all are. this is being driven by the protesters in the central square in cairo. she talks about focusing on the vice president. the newly installed vice president of egypt, and his name is omar suleiman. president mubarak has already said he will not stand for election. he will not put himself forward

MSNBC - Morning Joe

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MSNBC
Morning Joe

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Feb 14, 2011

czar for the obama administration steven rattner joins us this morning. we had a busy weekend, steve and i. >> yes, you and steve were jet setting -- >> yes. my husband and i took the kids to see "spider-man." it was squarery. if they tighten it, lit be a hit. it was oversensitizing. didn't i walk into the party trembling? >> what made me tremble was watching "meet the press" and congressman schilling, he seems like a nice guy. >> exceedingly nice. >> very nice family man. >> great story, great small business owner. here is the deal, mika. if i'm looking for a doctor and i know i've got cancer, a tumor the size of a grapefruit. >> that's bad. >> i go to the doctor. i have this grapefruit-sized tumor. and we talk. he says, yeah, i'll take it out. then i'll give you my first check as if it was a fee for services for health care. he says, i don't know whether i'm going to cut on you, but i do notice you've got a little rational over here. let me give you some creams and appointment. it's fairly obvious, we've got a tumor, this country. our condition, it's pretty easily diagnosed. raise

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Way Too Early With Willie Geist

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Feb 16, 2011

to tarnish the iranian nation's brilliance. at his news conference yesterday president obama slammed iranian lead who are are now blaming the west for the uprising. >> i find it ironic you've got the iranian regime pretending to celebrate what happened in egypt when, in fact, they have acted in direct contrast to what happened in egypt by gunning down and beating people who are trying to express themselves peacefully in iran. >> for the first time the unrest has now spread to libya where hundreds of protesters have take tone the streets there today to demand the government's ouster. the rioting is rare for libya which has been tightly controlled by moammar gad hoff fi. protesters in buy rain are holding their ground today in an egypt style of landmark square, the third day of demonstrations in one of washington's most strategic allies in the gulf. >> at george washington university secretary of state hillary clinton responded for them not doing to more. >> while the rights we seek to protect and support are clear, the various ways these rights are violated are increasingly complex. there is

MSNBC - The Dylan Ratigan Show

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Feb 2, 2011

MSNBC
The Dylan Ratigan Show

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Feb 2, 2011

9. >>> plus health care theater, the senate to vote on a repeal of president obama's health care law, as both scramble to refin the debate that refuses to address the underlying problems of insurance monopolies, employer-based health care and fee for service, none of that addressed by either party. >>> also, foreclosing on our troops, how our government is failing to protect our veterans from being victimized by predatory and immensely profitable taxpayer-subsidized megabanks. it's part of our "no way to live" series, our special production produced in collaboration with the huffington poth. the show starts right a now. >>> a dictatorship in which 40% of the people live on less than $2 a day. today we're seeing egyptians turn on each other, with deadly results. with the sound of gunshots in the air p. both the supporters and opponents today pelted each other with stones, bottles, throwing molotov cocktails and setting fires on the streets. at least one account of a fatality, hundreds of others surely injured. the imaging we're seeing today, a violent escalation to the peaceful pr

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CNN
Anderson Cooper 360

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Feb 15, 2011

inside the obama administration, could iran turn into the next egypt. they're being aggressive in their public statements about iran. >> they are, but they are realistic about the fact that iran is a different ball game, you just talked about it, it is extremely repressive. the level of repression is much higher actually, than it was in egypt, and almost anywhere they're executing, torturing, rounding up people, so realistically, to think that something could happen that easily, there's no illusion i think here. that said, there is that tide of people's movements that is definitely sweeping. you just showed the map, sweeping that region. by saying that perhaps the same thing, the people of iran should take the same rights that everyone else is entitled to could be a powerful message. also, don't forget after the 2009 election in iran, the united states did not speak out very forcefully, very quickly, and now it is. so they are changing. they're being much more aggressive. >> fareed, the hypocrisy of the iranian regime is pretty extraordinary for them to be praising the egyptian

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Feb 18, 2011

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Feb 18, 2011

ouster. >>> and today deep concerns from president obama moments ago aboardair force one as reports of more bloodshed in bahrain emerge. security forces opened fire on thousands defying a government crackdown in the capital city. we've got live reports coming from the region. >>> plus, call him the new sheriff on capitol hill. he takes aim at some sweetheart loans for congress. oversight committee chair darryl issa will join us light. >>> and the fight over spending cuts led one member of congress to make a very personal revelation. >>> plus "hardball's" chris matthews takes us behind the clinton phenomenon. >> when i was leaving the white house, i thought of myself as a guy who had been let's say a star quarterback in the nfl. >> good day, everybody. i'm norah o'donnell live in washington. andrea mitchell is off today, and we begin with the big story in wisconsin where tens of thousands of protesters are accusing the republican governor, mr. walker, of trying to balance the budget on the backs of state workers, raising health care and pension costs. in addition, protesters accuse t

WJZ - CBS Evening News

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WJZ
CBS Evening News

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Feb 12, 2011

, president obama discussed developments in egypt in phone calls with leaders in britain, jordan and turkey. outside the white house, some are questioning whether u.s. intelligence missed key signals that a genuine uprising was under way. wyatt andrews has that part of the story. >> reporter: the administration clearly knew the end game was coming for hosni mubarak. c.i.a. director leon panetta said so openly thursday morning. >> there is a strong likelihood that mubarak may step down this evening. >> reporter: but mubarak surprised everyone, including the egyptian military, when he refused to quit on thursday. u.s. officials said, "he called an audible." after he did leave on friday, the white house said it had known mubarak's curveball was not the final word. >> we have gotten-- into last night, gotten indications that the last speeches may not have been given. >> reporter: but even if the intelligence was strong, as mubaramubaraks leavingmubarak wt clear what was knownt beginning. the c.i.a. compared its egypt intelligence to an earthquake, saying it knew about the grass-roots anger but

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Feb 15, 2011

. >>> president obama will hold a news conferences at 11:00 a.m. eastern. you can see is here on cnn and likely talk about his 2012 budget unveiled yesterday and cut into many programs but with the aim of getting us at least to hack about a trillion dollars off the budget. >>> this morning, we are talking about your wallet and your world. we are following two major stories. prices are rising. food, clothing and appliances, just about everything you buy is about to cost more. then more protests ripple across the arab world. more violence erupts. two of the targeted regimes are u.s. allies. a third a u.s. foe and all could have a direct bearing on the united states. >>> we begin this hour with developing news just minutes ago, the white house announced that president obama will hold a morning news conference and comes one day after releasing his proposed budget and amid rises tide and protests and violence sweeping through the arab world. we have a preview with cnn's indicate bolduan at the white house. >> we did find out a short time ago that the president will be holding a press conference at 1

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Feb 23, 2011

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Feb 23, 2011

crackdown on anti-government protesters. president obama plans to speak out about the situation in libya in just a matter of minutes. we'll have live coverage here. critics have been questioning the president's silence. stand by for that. >>> oil prices spike to the highest level in over two years amid reports that libya's production has stalled. this hour, how the unrest there could threaten the economy here in the united states. >>> and a new legal move by the obama administration reignites the divisive debate over same-sex marriage. amid revolts overseas and budget battles here at home, a lot of people are asking why now? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." these are some of the latest pictures of libyans demanding freedom and defying moammar gadhafi's brutal crackdown. opposition forces have made gains outside the capital of tripoli a day after gadhafi vowed to fight to the death to hold on to power, but witnesses tell us the streets of tripoli are virtually empty right now, except for blood, bodies and burned cars. the white house says president obama will speak out in

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Feb 16, 2011

>>> good day. i'm contessa brewer. the big story we're watching now, president obama grabbing the reins in the budget battle and driving republicans in a corner they may not like being in. >> it's a budget presents a detailed, multiyear, comprehensive plan to cut spending and reduce deficits. >> in the senate this morning, treasury secretary tim geithner lays out the president's 2012 budget for the finance committee. >> we have protected programs that support military people, readiness, and modernization. >> in the house today, the defense secretary at the armed services committee weighs in on what will be a tug-of-war over how much money the pentagon gets. >>> all over capitol hill -- general anxiety about spending cuts and the political consequences. the president called republicans' budget bluff with his big proposal to slash spending. >> it will mean freezing salaries of hard-working federal employees for the next two years. >> that preemptive move forces republicans to take an even stricter stand if they want to appear to be spending hawks. >> the federal government has a

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Feb 14, 2011

.65 trillion this year. so that in mind, president obama says his new plan will shave more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. now, two-thirds of his goal would be accomplished with spending cuts and a five-year freeze on many domestic programs. the other one-third of the savings would come from tax increases. that would include limits on tax deductions for the wealthy. so here's some of the major cuts in the budget. discretionary spending which includes dozens of federal programs. that's going to be slashed by about $400 billion. also, pell grants for needy college students will be cut by $100 billion over the next ten years. and then richard, defense spending. that would be decreased by $78 billion. also headed for the chopping block, heating assistance for the poor. also, money for water treatment plants. and then airport grants as well. now, richard, not address in the president's plan or any republican proposal for that matter, tackling social security, also medicare. and then other entitlements, richard, which make up about 60% of the federal budget, richard. >> ye

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Feb 15, 2011

's the obama budget and the political battle of the year this morning jack lou, the president's budget director, defends the proposal. plus the egypt effect is sparking new violence in iran as thousands of protesters hit the streets. >>> this morning italian prime minister has been ordered to stand trial for trying to cover up a lurid sex scandal. it's tuesday, february 15th, 2011. i'm chuck todd. all sex scandals are lurid. >> if not, what's the point? good morning, everyone. i'm savannah guthrie. we'll get to the rundown and we'll start with breaking news president obama has scheduled a news conference for late this morning. he'll be talking about the budget among other things. >> we're expecting him to come out at 11:00 to defend his plan in person 24 hours after he released it. atheena, there was no press briefing scheduled today. that should have been the first tip, right? >> it should have been a sign. we heard administration officials say yesterday that it really was just the opening bid. a long fight ahead. a debate about the size and scope of the government. the classic debate really b

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Feb 21, 2011

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Feb 21, 2011

issue of barack obama? president obama praised you back in 2007. the fact is barack obama is quietly supporting rahm emanuel, his former chief of staff. >> barack obama did not do a formal endorsement of rahm emanuel. barack obama supported me in 2007 in my race for city clerk. i served with barack obama for eight years in the illinois senate. i'm pleased with the fact that he decided not to do a formal endorsement in this race. he realizes this election should be decided by the voters in the neighborhoods of the city of chicago, not by endorsements nor by the millions of dollars that have come from will the the gentlewoman yield and wall street and washington, d.c. in support of rahm emanuel and other candidates in this race. >> one of the quotes you gave to the "chicago sun times" was when rahm emanuel was hiding under his desk because of his friendship with the clintons, i was doing the heavy lifting. i was the first latino to endorse barack obama for senate. i know i have earned the president's praise. he has spoken highly of my work in chicago's neighborhoods. do you feel the pr

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Feb 6, 2011

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Feb 6, 2011

.s. cannot micromanage the process in egypt but the obama administration in her view needs to make its goals clear. >>> all right. so what happens in the coming months will shape the way the u.s. military deals with a post-mubarak egypt. this is a country that gets more than a billion u.s. dollars for its armed forces. pentagon correspondent chris lawrence with us now from washington. chris, what exactly is being weighed? >> reporter: well, at its base level, fed ricka, what about this $1.3 billion? that's what the u.s. gave to egypt last year, that's how much the obama administration has requested for this year. to give to egypt in military aide. we're talking about coal producing, more than a thousand abrams tanks, hundreds of f-16 fighter jets, coming up later this year, the egyptian military expected to take delivery on coastal patrol craft, air defense missiles. it run it is gamut. a congressional report seems to estimate 80% of the egypt arsenal is paid for by this american aid. >> so depending on the leadership in egypt, if there is, indeed, a decision made by the u.s. to trim the amo

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Feb 4, 2011

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Feb 4, 2011

the flavor in there. and, you know, obama, although he said he would be here if the bears got through says now he feels a little love for the steelers, which i just don't think you're allowed to say. i think he's got to be gung ho bears fan or not. >> i might be with you on that one, darren. didn't your mother ever tell you to get out of the cold? come on. thank you, my friend. >> you've got to do your job, you have to do your job. >> thank you, darren. >>> much more on the continuing protests in cairo as nightfalls there. we'll have a live report from richel engle coming up. later, more on the big game sunday. we have a look at ourp how super boel ads, they're more than 30 seconds of airtime. >> these are mini movies that the whole family can look forward to. of course, this year they are bigger, raceyer and funnier. >> raceyer? >> raceyer. and some are on the web because they are too hot to handle for tv. a sneak peek at those commercials because everybody will be talking about them on monday. >> we are not doing it. >> we've got godaddy commercials before. >> yeah, but this is over the

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Feb 8, 2011

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Feb 8, 2011

money in their hands, is to do things like repair and replace obama care which is going to kill jobs. >> let's keep it to the tax system because i think there's an agreement, robert, there it's a mess. i was pulling out some of my tax forms in fact just last night and it gives me palpatations, just to organize it. is there any political will in washington right now to simplify this? >> yes and no. yes, there's political will at least to have this conversation. but there's no political will as of right now, chris, to actually roll up your sleeps or roll up their sleeves around the conference table to have a real conversation about what's going to be cut. if we're really going to rein in the deficit, we really need to have a conversation about three specific things. first defense, secondly medicare and thirdly social security. if in fact you do not have a real conversation about unfortunately cutting some of those benefits back, we're still going to be in the situation we're in, which is record deficits all across the board. >> and i wonder when you look at those numbers, on a state le

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Feb 14, 2011

of uncertainty. there are more questions than answer at this particular moment. my hope, my hope is the obama administration will exert pressure on the army. there's a very close relationship between the u.s. army and the egyptian army. i do hope the obama administration maintains contact the egyptian army, impresses on the egyptian army the need for transparency, to transfer power to an elected egyptian government in the next eight or nine months. >> thanks to all of you for keeping us informed and giving us the benefit of your analysis. nice to see you mark. stephanie thank so you much. we let ali go. coming up the bogus debate about cutting this nation's budget. how politicians in both political parties are nickel and diming the american people when it comes to our debt. as a manager, my team counts on me to stay focused. so i take one a day men's 50+ advantage. it's the only complete multivitamin with ginkgo to support memory and concentration. plus vitamin d to help maintain healthy blood pressure. [ bat cracks ] that's a hit. one a day men's. to finish what you started today. for the ac

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Feb 16, 2011

for republicans to beat barack obama. don't tell that to rush limbaugh or a lot of other be conservatives. let's get to the rundown we'll start with the budget. from defends his 2012 budget playing against those who say it doesn't go far enough he's threatening to veto the proposed spending bill for 2011 budget. house republicans are looking to slash some $60 billion in the next seven months. mike, you must have had a ball watching this new open house. they got all sorts of crazy amendments that will hit the floor today as well but the reality is there seems to be a showdown between house republicans and the white house over funding levels. >> well, you're right. john boehner is keeping his end of the bargain and keeping open rules. anyone can come forward with an amendment. doesn't mean they will be debated. there's some 400 now all together. look if you think the pentagon should be funding nascar, if you think that the war in afghanistan, the funding for that should be cut, if you think foreign aid should be cut, the corporation for public broadcast, head start for underprivileged pre-school

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Feb 1, 2011

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Feb 1, 2011

to the ongoing demonstrations. president obama is also calling secretary of state hillary clinton and other top security advisers to the white house for a meeting on egypt this afternoon. today, large groups of protesters descended on central locations as part of the march of millions to demand the resignation of egyptian president, hosni mubarak. >>> and charlotte, north carolina, will host the 2012 democratic national convention. the city beat out cleveland, st. louis and minneapolis. it will be the first southern convention since 1988 in atlanta. 2008 was in denver. president obama carried north carolina in the 2008 election but by a slim margin. the 2012 republican convention will be in tampa, florida. >>> the white house is riding the fence on egypt but that hasn't stopped others in the democratic party from jumping into the fray with both feet. will they force president obama's hand? ed henry has the inside scoop coming up on the other side of the break. stay with us. ♪ [ male announcer ] you like who you are... the man you've become. and you learned something along the way. about the w

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Feb 11, 2011

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Feb 11, 2011

obama put it just a little while ago, egypt, he said, will never be the same. michael, this is a dramatic moment. history unfolding, all of us have been watching, and to think about it, michael, it took 18 days. only 18 days for mubarak to go and for the people of egypt to achieve this moment towards democracy and freedom. >> it is absolutely remarkable. who would have imagined that this could have happened, wolf, and, of course, mubarak's departure guarantees nothing and the days and weeks and months ahead are going to be what really tells us whether this is going to be a move towards genuine free, fair, open democracy. we're still waiting to hear from the military how they are going to handle things, so very important. now, of course, that is where it's all been happening. what you're looking at there now. tahrir square. that's where the joy erupted a few hours ago and that's where arwa damon has been throughow. arwa, i envy you enormously being there. it must have been an extraordinary few hours. arwa, are you hearing me? >> reporter: not entirely sure if you can he

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Feb 6, 2011

response to the protests was muted but in the 13 days since the obama administration, while stopping short of calling for president pew barack's immediate resignation, has pushed for an orderly transition to democracy. today in an interview with fox news's bill o'reilly president obama had this to say. >> that egypt is not going to go back to what it was. the egyptian people want freedom. they want free and fair elections. >> reporter: in a potentially explosive and rapidly changing situation, the president is trying to strike a balance. the administration is supporting the protestors demanding reform while also seeking to protect vital u.s. interests. >> it seems like of like a high wire artist where he has to walk a fine line between wantinging pew barack to go, but not going away that creates chaos. >> reporter: analysts say the stake kos not be higher. not only in egypt but throughout the middle east. >> what has happened in egypt has transformed the arab world. and the united states is going to have to fundamentally shift its foreign policy in a way that it has resisted for the past 2

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Jan 31, 2011

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Jan 31, 2011

evacuate americans. in washington, the obama administration continues to call for a peaceful transition to democracy. we have extensive coverage tonight, including a team of correspondents in cairo. we begin with elizabeth palmer who has been covering the protests in the heart of cairo. elizabeth? >> reporter: good evening, harry. well, the protestors are still down in the square behind me, you may be able to hear them. several thousand of them. they've been chanting ever since quite a dramatic speech by egypt's vice president on television a couple of hours ago who offered talks with what he called "all political forces" on constitutional change. last week, the vice president's offer might have sounded like victory to the protestors. now, for this crowd, it's just not enough. "tell anyone who orders you to fire on us, no," the demonstrators chanted. "we are your people." people who have found a voice and a place to call their own. liberation square has become, as one demonstrator called it, the moral heart of egypt. >> we will be here until he gets out. >> reporter: the atmosphere is a

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Feb 1, 2011

it will appeal the ruling of a federal judge in florida declaring the obama administration health care overhaul inconstitutional. yesterday judge vincent shot down the plan writing -- because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable. the entire act must declared void. toward the end of his 78-page ruling the have idea the president's own promise from the 2008 campaign against him. then president obama supported a proposal which did not include a mandate. saying here's the concerns. if you haven't made it affordable, how are you going to enforce a mandate? if a mandate was a absolutely, we can try that, by mandating everybody to buy a house. in response to the ruling, which was a challenge by 26 of the 50 states in the union, the white house said this ruling is way out of the main stream of judicial opinion. we don't believe this kind of judicial activism will be upheld. we're it will be declared constitutional by the courts. >>> on capitol hill fell largely along party line. here's new york's democrat congressman anthony weiner. >> you can't be sure of anything on the law wi

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Feb 6, 2011

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Feb 6, 2011

's initial response to the protests was muted but in the 13 days since the obama administration, while stopping short of calling for president mubarik's immediate resignation, has pushed for an orderly transition to democracy. today in an interview with fox news's bill o'reilly president obama had this to say. >> that egypt is not going to go back to what it was. the egyptian people want freedom. they want free and fair elections. >> reporter: in a potentially explosive and rapidly changing situation, the president is trying to strike a balance. the administration is supporting the protestors demanding reform while also seeking to protect vital u.s. interests. >> it seems like of like a high wire artist where he has to walk a fine line between wanting mubarik to go, but not going away that creates chaos. >> reporter: analysts say the stake kos not be higher. not only in egypt but throughout the middle east. >> what has happened in egypt has transformed the arab world. and the united states is going to have to fundamentally shift its foreign policy in a way that it has resisted for the

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Feb 16, 2011

president obama's 2012 budget proposal can be debated, congress needs to come to terms on the nation's current budget set to expire on march 4th. however, with the clock ticking down, lawmakers are at an impasse over proposed reductions the president says could endanger it. brian mooar joins us with details. good morning. >> reporter: there's no way to describe this other than a collision course between the white house and the republican-controlled house. house republicans went into the wee hours of the morning, knocking off about 1:00 a.m. they're trying to pass a $60 billion bill to cut government spending. it could go up to $115 billion. right now republicans are working their way through more than 400 different amendments, all of them designed to do what lawmakers said is basically cutting up the government's credit cards. house democrats are going to try to drag this out a bit. they are unlikely to keep this from passion. that moves to it the senate where it's going to face a lot of heat from senate democrats who control that chamber. then it's on to president obama who says he'

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Feb 15, 2011

, a third of president obama. and when the therapist picked up one of the cards, gabby giffords said, george bush. doctors told us it's a sign not only of speech recovery but also of cognitive recovery. >> cognitive recovery and speech recovery are two separate processes. someone may be able to speak, but the inability to think clearly may become more evident because now the person is speaking, but the person may not make sense. >> reporter: but in gabby giffords' case, she is making sense, a few words at a time. even speaking to her brother-in-law in space telling him, hi, i'm good. and her office said the congresswoman continues to be briefed just as she'd always been. all last week on egypt. convinced that while she can't speak in full sentences, she can understand what's being said. and her mother is he can stamic. "the new york times" reporting in an e-mail sent by giffords' mother about gabby winning a game of tic-tac-toe against one of the nurses adding that she's gone from being kind of a limp noodle to someone that is alert and sits up straight with good postures. music, the newest

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: president obama's budget director jack lew left the nation with a surplus. >> i came back ten years later to look at projectionses over $10 trillion over the next ten years. it's enough to break your heart. >> reporter: the national deficit in 2011 and suspected to reach an all-time high of $1.65 trillion. the president's budget would increase spending on research and development, education and transportation. republicans say those are all nonstarters. ron and vinita? >>> america's fighting forces may not be immune to the need for budget cutbacks. the defense secretary says he wants enough money to maintain 9 #,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. that is despite the obama administration's insistence that it will begin to gradually withdraw force this is july. the 2012 budget requests includes about $118 billion for the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >>> the house has voted to extend three key provision of the patriot act set to expire at the end of the month. the post-9/11 counterterrorism powers include roving wiretapping and seizing business records, plus intelligence surveillance on suspect

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Feb 9, 2011

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doing lunch. at the white house the ultimate power lunch. in half an hour president obama hosts white house republicans. >> republicans are continuing to be focused -- >> house speaker john boehner, eric cantor and kevin mccarthy will sit down with the president today. vice president joe biden is also attending. on the menu -- >> heavy discussion on the economy and on spending. >> both sides say they are looking forward to a thoughtful discussion. white house spokesman robert gibbs says the president wants to talk over his state of the union proposals and foreign policy issues like the crisis in egypt. republicans want to talk about slashing spending and health care reform and while that conversation may get testy, it may lead to more productive government. here is mccarthy on "morning joe." >> i'm the one who believes this divided government creates a structure to get together. >> you can get something done. >> after two years of the two sides taking sides the president is pushing forward on his promise to reach out to conservatives. he visited his next door neighbors at the conserva

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Feb 12, 2011

obama poured praise on the egyptian people. >> this is the power of human dignity and it could never be denied. egyptians have inspired us and they've done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained by violence. in egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence, not terrorism, not mindless killing, but nonviolence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more. >> the arc of history bent towards history once more. vice president biden calling on iran's government to follow egypt's example. 32 years ago, the shah of iran's regime buckled. theocracy followed though, not freedom. waeh ghonim says he puts his faith in 80 million egyptians. fear has been defeated, they're crying, and there is no turning back. joining us once again, ben wedeman, ivan watson and professor dr. fouad ajami. fouad, your thoughts? >> what can i tell you? i come from a generation whose heart was broken by egypt. we witnessed the defeat of egypt, those of us arab born who came to politics in the '50s and the '60s. we witnessed the defeat of egypt in the six-day war in 1967. an

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Feb 9, 2011

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Feb 9, 2011

a sharply worded warning from egypt's vice president. >>> let's move. michelle obama works to get kids to eat healthy and be active. her husband has stopped smoking. >> all the women in my husband's life want him to be healthy. >> is it possible he is going into the lincoln bedroom and sneaking a smoke? >> no. you can tell. >>> plus controversy divides conservatives ahead of their annual convention as cpac faces boycott for including gays. >>> let's do lunch. the president invites the top republican leaders for lunch. on the menu, budgets, taxes, the debt ceiling and maybe the failure to renew the patriot act for dessert. let's bring in chuck todd, co-host of the daily rundown and kelly o'donnell. you guys aren't having lunch because they are having lunch. there is a lot to cover here. >> they won't let us in. >> they won't let you in. first to you, chuck, on the president's agenda. what is he willing to give, if anything, in this first sit down with republicans? >> this is the first time they have gotten together. the president has a pretty good working relationship or at least in the

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Feb 17, 2011

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Feb 17, 2011

of the hospital continuing her recovery at home. she received a call today from president obama who expressed his concern. >> reporter: she was in cairo friday to report on the resignation of hosni mubarak but became separated from her crew. this photo was taken the moment before. a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating. according to the committee, at least 140 reporters were attacked covering the protests in egypt. >> what was unusual about the situation in egypt is the systematic and sustained nature of attacks on journalists. >> reporter: one week before the attack, they were detained by egyptian security forces and endured a long interrogation before expelled from the country. she managed to return. before she went back, she felt compelled to go again. >> it's very hard for me to be away from this story. i feel i failed because i didn't deliver. it's in my blood to be there. >> you don't want them to carry out what's considered a man's job. >> reporter: judith is a journalism expert who worked with logans. attacks against women reporters go unreported. >> they are concerned if they

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